[turtlerod]

Graphs like that prove to me one thing: the author knows how to make pretty bar charts.

I looked at the graph, and I have no idea what it means. How was ****ery measured? How was harmonic

For context this is the graph.. referenced a page or so back... to say that Schiit DAC have an "issue" with treble "F'kery" is a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bit overstated.....

Even on this graph, most
Schiit MB dacs are right around a -1 on the "F'kery" scale.... 0 being baseline...

I will say my Gungnir multibit (unconfirmed A2) is the brightest Schiit Dac I own.... but really all that means to me, for my preferences, is tha I need to be careful with what I listen to when pairing Ragnarok and Gumby together when using Focal Clears or my Magnepan LRSs.....

Gumby is great with everything else I own...

Yggy OG A2 is great with everything....

Bifrost 2 OG is great with everything...

Another thing, I believe Schiits DAC products are voiced to their vision of natural sounding.

SBAF's version of "ahhh this has a bit more treble then I find natural.....it has some F'kery to it......" could very well be Mike, Dave, Jason and the rest of the Schiit crews version of "this sounds so natural.... it reminds of when I saw X in concert.... their voices and strings just seemed so great.... this Dac reminds of that...."

I do find the graph accurate in how it compares the dacs to each other though.... maybe SBAFs -1 is Schiits 0......

Lastly, A number of people on SBAF specifically think the OG A1 yggy was the best sounding yggy schiit made, and all it needed was a firmware update.... and OG A1 is the Schiit dac with the MOST treble "F'kery", according to the graph....

IMO, YMMV and all that...

I look at this graph and nothing is really defined. How is harmonic richness measured? How is treble ****ery measured? In db. or fcks/second?

There was a time years ago that I would get fatigued when listening to music and it could cause headaches. As my equipment improved this went away. Nothing I own from Schiit causes any issues and I can listen for hours. I feel fortunate every time I turn my system on. I never thought equipment would ever be this good, and I never thought that I would have this great of a system.

 

[HighAlt]

Maybe instead of VU meters, Schiit can implement plankton meters and call them PU meters.

 

[ericrosenfield]

I think I read somewhere that what some perceive as a high frequency aberration actually happens between 1500-2500Hz.

This is legitimately fascinating. I'm experimenting now with eq'ing down that region to see what happens.

 

[theeclone]

I always thought "blackground" was just a portmanteau of black & background; e.g., the extent to which gear has a black background

Does this mean "motel" is elitist?

 

[Ripper2860]

I was thinking she supports hairy legs and underarms but, hey, you do you.

Thanks for totally ruining the one brief bit of happiness that I allowed myself today.

 

[turtlerod]

Maybe instead of VU meters, Schiit can implement plankton meters and call them PU meters.

Very fitting for Schiit to be measured in "PU" increments

 

[theveterans]

Maybe instead of VU meters, Schiit can implement plankton meters and call them PU meters.

Eagles - Hotel California from Hell Freezes over has a schiit ton of plankton. That PU meter be jumping mad!

 

[LobalWarming]

Thanks for totally ruining the one brief bit of happiness that I allowed myself today.

Yiggy is in the shop? Or worse, you had to bury it out back when your heard @bcowen was moving nearby?

 

[adydula]

Not to pick words apart, but I will anyway:

"Known". By who? Not me. The only thing that is truly known is that you hear it and I don't. Anything beyond that is just projection.

"Helpful". So what I'm gathering from this chart is one person's subjective opinion based on his one person preferences listening through his one person set of associated components. Maybe that's helpful to you, but it doesn't even ping the radar as information of any value...to me. Of course I'm still trying to wrap my head around "plankton," so it's probably just a character flaw on my end.

plankton = another glittering adjective that means what????
to me nothing...IMO of course.

 

[Ripper2860]

Yiggy is in the shop? Or worse, you had to bury it out back when your heard @bcowen was moving nearby?

I'm a bit bummed as I can't sell anything from my Classifieds listings. I can't ship anything since I had to bury all my cardboard boxes.

Yggy is safe from @bcowen. Cardboard? Not so much.

 

[ImagesbyMurray]

Funny you posted that as a response to something I said. Dr. Cox my spirit animal.

Mine would be ALF, hands down

 

[bcowen]

Yiggy is in the shop? Or worse, you had to bury it out back when your heard @bcowen was moving nearby?

His backyard is full of used Barbie dolls. He'll have to buy some land to bury anything more.

 

[valiant66]

Pantech

Yep. It started as a joke by Lonnie Vaughn at Emotiva that they were working on hundreds of new products including a toaster. Dan Laughlan made it real. It was a limited production run a few years ago.

Ok. If Emotiva can make a toaster, then @Jason Stoddard definitely can!

(And yes, I still haven't caught up. It's still last year where I am on the sine wave... )
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[AstronomerXI]

Ask him to decontaminate it before shipping.

Or, at the very least, he should top-up the plankton tank.

 

[adydula]

Sigh. A black YGGY just came up for sale near me, and the seller mentions the "...level of plankton..."

This made me spit liquid thru my nostrils!!
OMG this is soooo funny.